Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3226  ·  NGC 3227
Arp 94 NGC 3227, François Régembal
Arp 94 NGC 3227
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Arp 94 NGC 3227

Arp 94 NGC 3227, François Régembal
Arp 94 NGC 3227
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Arp 94 NGC 3227

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Arp 94 is a pair of interacting galaxies located over 50 million light-years away from the Earth in the constellation of Leo (the Lion). It consists of the large, unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 3227 of about 90,000 light-years across, and the smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 3226. The pair is receding from us at a little over 1150 kilometers per second. The nucleus of NGC 3226 appears to contain an active galactic nucleus (AGN). The nucleus is a strong source of both radio and X-ray emission that is expected from the environment around a supermassive black hole. The X-ray emission may also be variable, which is also expected in the environment of a supermassive black hole.

NGC 3227 contains a Seyfert nucleus, a type of AGN, with an active central supermassive black hole. (Such Seyfert galaxies are galaxies with extremely bright nuclei that produce spectral line emission from highly ionized gas. The centers of Seyfert galaxies AGNs, and usually contain supermassive black holes with masses between 10 and 100 million solar masses.)

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Arp 94 NGC 3227, François Régembal